{"id":414663,"date":"2026-09-30T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:32:10","slug":"healthy-aging-month-orlando-man-completes-chemo-after-early-colon-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414663\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Aging Month: Orlando man completes chemo after early colon cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healthy Aging Month: Orlando man completes chemo after early colon cancer diagnosis<\/p>\n

Jason Jose, an Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute employee, shares his experience of overcoming colon cancer after initially hesitating to get a colonoscopy. <\/p>\n

\"Meredith<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

September is Healthy Aging Month. <\/p>\n

During that time, Jason Jose, 47, marked the end of his chemotherapy treatment by ringing the bell, celebrating a major milestone in his fight against colon cancer after early detection. <\/p>\n

Jose noticed stomach pain and discomfort, which he brought to the attention of a fellow colleague, Dr. Udayakumar Navaneethan, who urged Jose to get a colonoscopy. <\/p>\n

Jose, who works at the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute, is thankful he listened to his doctors, as the colonoscopy revealed his cancer early. <\/p>\n

Dr. Udayakumar Navaneethan, a physician at the institute, explained why many people are reluctant to undergo the procedure. <\/p>\n

“A lot of people around the age of 45, 47, 48 are hesitant because they’re young, they feel they are healthy, they’re invincible,” Navaneethan said. <\/p>\n

“They don’t want to go through the pain of taking a bowel preparation, cleaning up the colon and it’s ’embarrassing’ to get a colonoscopy.”<\/p>\n

Reflecting on Jose\u2019s case, Navaneethan added, “I’m very happy for him just because we were able to find it early.” <\/p>\n

Jose initially experienced stomach discomfort, but never suspected it could be cancer. <\/p>\n

“It hit me hard,” Jose said. “I really had no symptoms.”<\/p>\n

Navaneethan noted an increase in colon cancer diagnoses among younger individuals. <\/p>\n

“We are seeing a lot of young people with colon cancer,” he said. <\/p>\n

“We don’t know what the reason is. It’s probably multifactorial: obesity, metabolic syndrome, obviously processed foods, ultra-processed foods, too much red meat, no fruits and vegetables in the diet.”<\/p>\n

Jose hopes his story will inspire others to take action for their health. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know why people put it off, and I was one of them,” he said. “It is like the most easiest thing to do and I think everyone should do it. It could save your life.” <\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to learn more. <\/p>\n

>> Watch the full story and interview in the video player above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Healthy Aging Month: Orlando man completes chemo after early colon cancer diagnosis Jason Jose, an Orlando Health Digestive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,164288,49560,164282,164289,164287,164285,575,164283,164281,164284,1736,27643,164286,139,141,6031,58566,140,87362,9498,25238],"class_list":["post-414663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-chemo","tag-colon-cancer","tag-colonoscopy","tag-discomfort","tag-dr-udayakumar-navaneethan","tag-early-colon-cancer-diagnosis","tag-food","tag-healthy-aging-month","tag-healthy-aging-month-orlando-man-completes-chemo-after-early-colon-cancer-diagnosis","tag-jason-jose","tag-lot","tag-many-people","tag-navaneethan","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-health","tag-orlando-man","tag-orlando-news","tag-stomach-pain","tag-story","tag-vegetable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}